Day two at SXSW, and Dom and were I bright and alert* for the first session of the day, in which we got to hear from three wise men from three very different companies that are all equally successful and disrupting things using the web: Uber, GitHub, and Air BnB. If you haven’t heard of [...]
This week is one of the most exciting weeks in our calendar as we’re on our now annual adventure to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW). For one week, the small city of Austin is flooded with geeks for this massive tech conference – Dom hit the nail on the head when he described [...]
Wolverhampton makes things, and makes things happen. This industrial revolution powerhouse still has a thriving engineering and creative sector, is birthplace to the traffic light, Slade , Beverly Knight and Goldie. The city produces parts for the aerospace industry, without which every plane in the air worldwide would fall from the sky. Despite that, the [...]
Far be it for us to pass up the opportunity to support really great people putting on really great local government related events, this summer (such as it is) we will be heading on down to two fun and fascinating events to listen, learn and share our thoughts with localgov curious colleagues on all things [...]
This weekend the Global Service Jam is back. Global Service Jam is a two day event that runs concurrently in cities across the globe. Each city competes against one another (in the nicest possible way) to design and deliver the most innovative, creative and interesting solutions to a challenge they are set. It’s a fast [...]
You can sign up to the event here or by visiting our Facebook event page. We kick off the first of our three Local, Social, Digital fringe meetings in Birmingham this Sunday at the Liberal Democrat Conference. We’re hoping to get an enthusiastic reception from a party where politicians have already embraced social media. Liberal Democrat MPs [...]
Why Australia, you ask? That’s a very long way away from FutureGov’s main base in London isn’t it? Well yes you’re right. But thanks to the wonders of the web and actual real life travel we’ve been working more closely with colleagues down under for some time and I felt it was about time I [...]
Image: Vinoth Chandar Not long now until a group of digital government and social innovation geeks pack their bags and head over to the US with us and the Digital Mission gang to learn how things are done on the other side of the pond – and hopefully show them a thing or two as [...]
Last November, we kicked off the Local by Social programme in Coventry
Like Phileas Fogg I feel like I’ve been round the world of local government in the last ten days. Rarely do I get a chance to touch all areas of local government in such a short space of time but the stars aligned last week and I’ve been on a (somewhat manic) tour of events [...]